EBRSO: Woman arrested for terrorizing students, teacher

Donna Wilson

Sheriff’s deputies on Tuesday arrested a Baton Rouge woman accused of making threatening remarks, including referencing the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., to fifth-graders and a teacher after her child was bullied.

While she was checking her child into Magnolia Woods Elementary School at noon Tuesday, Donna Wilson learned that her child was a victim of bullying on Monday, East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Casey Rayborn Hicks said.

School officials told Wilson that they handled the incident and had counseled students about teasing the child, Hicks said.

Wilson later walked her child to the child’s classroom, confronted the teacher about the bullying and asked the students if they remembered the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting, Hicks said.

According to an affidavit, Wilson said that if the bullying continued, then her “husband would be coming back and they didn’t want him coming to the school” and if he came to the school, then that would be “the day they are going to have to shut the school down.”

Officials escorted Wilson from the classroom and she left the campus at 760 Maxine Drive, Hicks said.

School authorities contacted the Sheriff’s Office and placed the school on “Hold and Secure” as a precaution, Hicks said.

Hicks said detectives found Wilson at her house, where they arrested her.

Wilson told detectives she made the remarks so the children would understand bullying, and she apologized for referencing the Connecticut school shooting, Hicks said.

Sonya A. Gordon, a spokeswoman for the parish school system, said in an email that “Hold and Secure” means students are secured in the classrooms, hallways are cleared and exterior and classroom doors are locked until school officials and deputies give the “all-clear” signal.

Gordon said the school system might release a statement about Tuesday’s incident at a later date.

She said school officials will send a letter to families of all students at Magnolia Woods referencing Tuesday’s disturbance, but none was posted on the district’s website or the school’s website.

Gordon did not give The Advocate a copy of the letter.

Attempts to contact Magnolia Woods Principal Donna Wallette were unsuccessful.

This is the first arrest in East Baton Rouge Parish by sheriff’s deputies of someone making threatening statements toward a school or students since the Connecticut school shooting, Hicks said.

Wilson, 2575 Gardere Lane, Lot 88, was booked into Parish Prison on one count of terrorizing, Hicks said.

Comments

1) Comment by kc8848 - 17/06/2013

Twinkie1cat - you say "this mother was frustrated because the school was not doing it's job of teaching children not to bully"....How do you know that the school was not teaching children not to bully? YOU DON"T know this. It does not matter how much teaching you do there are some that are just bullies and no amount of teaching at school will stop that. The FIRST place that children learn to be kind and not bully is AT HOME. The mother herself is the bully here and bullying children no less!!! You want to call that frustration? It's people like her that SHOULD NOT HAVE CHILDREN. This is just downright disgusting that she went to the classroom with her child in tow to witness her blaming innocent children being killed because of bullying. What an excellent way to get her child to be shunned by the rest of the school and made fun of. Wow just wow. I can't believe you take up for this behavior even if the mother was frustrated. There is NO excuse for the way that mother behaved especially in front of other children and you actually blame the teachers at school. Learning good behavior and being a good person starts at home and NO ONE is to blame but the parents if they don't set good examples for their children. This mother is NO good example for a child.

2) Comment by twinkie1cat - 02/02/2013

Boiled crabs: How would you like to be published in the paper when you get a sexually transmitted disease so you won't endanger anyone. Medical records are private and confidential. There are many people diagnosed with mental illness and very few are violent...........This mother was frustrated because the school was not doing its job of teaching children not to bully.

3) Comment by Springer98 - 09/01/2013

These are the kind of morons that shouldn't be allowed to own a gun. It's not the gun, it's the nut right on the back side of it!

4) Comment by Bwaites985 - 09/01/2013

I hope she doesn't bullied in jail, cause then her husband would have to come to jail too and shut it down. LOL what an idiot.

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6) Comment by Woody - 08/01/2013

bc, i'll start with exhibit a: donna wilson, 2575 gardere lane, Lot 88, baton rouge

7) Comment by BoiledCrabs - 08/01/2013

The debate shouldn't be about gun control. It should be about controlling the mentally disturbed. How about publishing a list of people with known mental illness living in the area so we can protect ourselves?